The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGANThe universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGANIf I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
CARL SAGANScience is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANPeople are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
CARL SAGANNot all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
CARL SAGANBooks permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
CARL SAGANAdvances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
CARL SAGANThe brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
CARL SAGANYour god is too small for my universe.
CARL SAGANThose at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
CARL SAGANPerhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
CARL SAGANI don’t want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGANOur species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
CARL SAGANThe total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
CARL SAGANWhere we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
CARL SAGAN